Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Brand New Key" by Melanie
In the UK:
"I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" by The New Seekers
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: I.R.A. Fighter
(TIME Cover: January the 10th, 1972)
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Famous people born on the 10th of January: |
1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1865 - Mary Ingalls, elder sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972 |
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Christian B. Anfinsen
1916-1995
for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation
USA
National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, MD, USA
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1972 (USA) |
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$0.52 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1972 |
The Godfather
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
with Marlon Brando (Don Vito Corleone), James Caan (Sonny Corleone) and Al Pacino (Michael Corleone)
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Designed in 1972 |
The Marylin Sofa
by Studio 65 |
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